From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Nov 24 15:32:18 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 089AF15063 for ; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 15:32:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA01211; Wed, 24 Nov 1999 15:22:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199911242322.PAA01211@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Damon M. Conway" Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: porting question In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 24 Nov 1999 17:13:05 CST." <199911242313.RAA00460@chiba.3jane.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 24 Nov 1999 15:22:16 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > hi, i'm interested in porting some linux apps to freebsd to help me start > learning c better. i think my first project is to port mnemonic to > freebsd. i was wondering if there is a good resource that describes the > differences between glibc2.1 and the libc that freebsd uses. i have a > feeling i'm going to be searching through the sources to find similar > functionality between them, but i thought i'd ask first. glibc and the FreeBSD C library are basically meant to cover the same things. Unfortunately, glibc suffers from the "kitchen sink" syndrome. As a general rule, once you've ported to FreeBSD, the code should still build on Linux, and you'll have a much more portable result. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message